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Brain study reveals predictive mechanism behind focus and hearing
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
When people focus on a task, the brain doesn't just listen differently -- it listens smarter. A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that the auditory cortex, one of the brain's main sound-processing centers, changes how it operates during active engagement, synchronizing
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Study discovers how brain processes, stores words that we hear
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
According to neuroscientists from Georgetown University Medical Centre, the brain's auditory lexicon, or catalogue of verbal language, is located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not the rear - a discovery that challenges a century-long understanding of this part of the brain. Th
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Brain's primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The subjective experience of sound involves various psychological and cognitive factors that give sounds additional meaning and significance. The frequency and loudness of sounds that we hear around us literally describe those sounds. But for humans, sounds carry significance that goes beyon
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Findings explain exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren Syndrom
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Scientists have identified the mechanism by which Williams-Beuren Syndrome enhances the ability to discriminate between sounds as interneuron hyperexcitability in the auditory cortex.
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Expert recommendation on how to improve hearing
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 14 (ANI): Researchers discovered a method that could possibly be used to improve auditory perception in situations where sounds are difficult to distinguish.
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Brain architecture of hearing, deaf people 'nearly identical'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 18 (ANI): A recent study has shown that the neural architecture in the auditory cortex, the part of the brain that processes sound, of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical.
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